University Daily Kansan, September 27, 1982
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Downtown developer choice on city commission's agenda
By DOUG CUNNINGHAM Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission tomorrow night will select a "developer of record" for the proposed downtown redevelopment project.
Three firms are competing to be developer of record. They are Sizelar Realty Co., Kenner, La.; Two Crowns Management, Inc.; and Link Programs Inc., Chicago.
The firm selected will be expected to enter into a memorandum of agreement with the city, probably within 30 days, Dean Palos, a planner in the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Department, said last week.
That agreement will list the responsibilities of the city and the development firm, Palos said, and will deal with such topics as the scope and funding of projects, project management and the financial responsibilities of each party.
CITY COMMISSIONERS were divided last week over the choice of a director.
Commissioner Don Bims said he favored Two Crowns and would try to convince the other commissioners to pick that firm.
Bins, however, is the only commissioner to show strong support for Two
Commissioner Barkley Clark said he favored either Link Programs or Sizer Realty. Two Crownes does not enough development experience, he said.
Mayor Marco Francisco said "it would be hard to argue for Two Crowns," but added she had not made up her mind.
Commissioners Tom Gleason and Nancy Shontz also said they had not yet decided which firm they would vote for.
In its meeting at 7 p.m. tomorrow night in City Hall, the city commission also will consider an ordinance requiring that any hazardous material spill or emergency immediately be reported to the Lawrence Fire Department.
CITY MANAGER Buford Watson said there was no such provision in the city codes requiring that such spills immediately be reported to city officials.
Adoption of the ordinance may result in a faster response time by city officials to hazardous material spills, be said.
The commission also will consider an ordinance that would provide authorization for the assessment of court costs for cases heard in municipal court.
The ordinance does not list specific costs that might be assessed, but a memo Watson wrote to the commissioners said that it would be assessed ranged from $1 to $25.
Another ordinance to be considered by the commission would amend the city codes relating to the transportation of cereal malt beverages.
If the proposed ordinance is adopted, the codes will be in line with state law, Watson said.
THE COMMISSION also will discuss sanitation pickup in alleys that form a Tor an L.
A memo to Watson from George Williams, director of public works, said that collections from T and L alleyes were discontinued in all cases in order not to cause the city's garbage trucks could not safely negotiate the alley turns.
Timetables ready soon
Timetables for the spring semester are at the printer's, and the schedule has been set for the first-ever early fall semester in Kansas, a KU official said recently.
Advising will end Nov. 2 and early enrollment will begin Nov. 3 and last
The timetables will come out Oct. 18, two days before student advising begins, said Gary Thompson, director of student records and registration.
OFFICIALS RECENTLY posted step-by-step early enrollment instructions outside of 111 Strong Hall, the enrollment center. Thompson said.
The University is printing 25,000 timetables, each including instructions for the new procedure. Students will be able to pick up the timetables in the records and registration office, 122 Strong Hall.
Students who miss their appointed times may come back between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. on the following days during the vacation and will not enroll before the appointed time.
During early enrollment, seniors will enroll first and the remaining undergraduates and graduate students will enroll afterward.
ENROLLLEES NO LONGER will go in alphabetical order. Students will enroll according to the last three digits of their identification numbers. Thompson said.
He said the University already had started using the new computer system to be used for pre-enrollment. For the past three weeks, officials have used the system to process drop and add requests.
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The postcard is sent directly to the office of affirmative action, and the applicant is not identified, Wehrle-Einhern said. The only identification on the postcard is the job code number.
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APPLICANTS ALSO are asked if they are male or female, aliens, veterans or handicapped.
By JEANNE FOY Staff Reporter
Completion of the form is voluntary because federal law prohibits employers to require prospective
In order to comply with federal regulations, KU job search committees for unclassified employees may also conduct a national ethnic background of job applicants.
The University of Kansas was recently cited by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, a branch of the Labor Department, for failing to properly identify minority applicants, which it difficult to monitor hiring practices, Juanita Wehrle-Inborn, assistant director of affirmative action, said recently.
Under the new policy, which was implemented in July, all applicants for unclassified positions are sent postage-paid postcards which ask them to identify themselves as either black, Asian, Hispanic, white, American Indian or native of Alaska, she said.
Previously, job search committees only guessed an applicant's ethnic background. Wehrie-Einhorn said.
"You can't guess a person's race. It's not reasonable," she said.
employees to identify themselves by race, she said.
John Tolefson, dean of the School of Business, said that in the past, if no one knew a candidate personally, job search committees would have to guess his ethnic background from information provided on his resume.
A person was never asked his race directly, Tolleson said, because the applicant might think the informa- tion be used to discriminate against him.
SHE SAID the affirmative action office had no idea what the return rate would be, especially because answering the postcard was not a requirement and did not affect the applicant's employment chances. The office will not be able to find a long-term response rate until the end of fiscal 1983, Wehrle-Einhorn said.
THE POSTCARD also asks applicants how they learned of the job vacancy, which will help the affirmative action office learn where to advertise for qualified women and minorities. Wehrle-Ethnorn said.
A person's racial background was always kept separate from application materials. Tollefson said.
The man, Nova Reed, died at 7:30 a.m. Saturday when he and his wife were shot and killed north side of the lake in Clinton State Park. officials said. The man's wife
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Hearing set for Oct. 18 in KU on Wheels theft
by CAROL LICHTI Staff Reporter
The former director of the KU on Wheels program, who faces charges of five fidelity counts for allegedly stealing $20,245 from KU bus system funds, will appear at a preliminary hearing Oct. 13. County district judge ruled Friday.
In his first appearance in court, Steve McMurry, Lawrence special student, who had directed the student bus program since 1974, was charged with five counts of theft occurring between January 1981 and Oct. 18, 1982.
McMurray was removed from his position as head of the transportation board after his arrest Sept. 15. The board is funded by the Student Senate.
HARRY WARREN, Douglas County assistant district attorney, said the five counts did not include all of the missing funds.
The five counts are based on $4,210
missing on Jan. 22, 1981; $2,310 on Aug.
23, 1982; $5,500 on Aug. 24; $2,420 on Aug
31; and $4,165 on Sept. 1.
"But they cover everything I think I can prove at this time," he said.
The KU on Wheels program and McMurray's account with the University State Bank both are being audited, but they had not audits had not been compared to
McMurry has been charged with five class D. felonies, for which the maximum penalty is 10 years in jail, Warren said.
determine how much money is missing,
he said.
"It's possible additional charges will be filed before the Oct. 18 hearing date." Warren said.
THE AUDITS date back to 1974, he said.
Because of the statute of limitations, which prevents the filing of charges for crimes committed more than two years ago, action for earlier thefts will have to be dealt with through a civil suit by the University. Warren said.
The agencies that have insured the Student Senate could also sue for damages that occurred more than two years ago, he said.
Mc Murry's attorney, Wesley Norwood, could not be reached for wood.
Warren said that McMurry, 122 Concord Road, was responsible for collecting money students pay bus drivers for passes and delivering it to the University compterlor. Students can purchase bus passes from bus drivers during the first two weeks of the semester.
Apparently, Warren said, McMurry was depositing some of the money into his personal bank account and giving the rest to the controller.
THE POSSIBILITY of theft came to the bank's attention when a student's personal check for a bus pass bounced, Warren said. Because the KU student's checkbook had been stolen, he had stopped payment on one of the checks McMurray allegedly had deposited, he said.
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